GREENBURGH – With just 25 NHL games on his resume, 22 of them last season, Brennan Othmann is still technically a rookie by NHL standards, and eligible for the Calder Trophy this season as the league’s Rookie of the Year.

Still, for the Rangers’ first-round draft pick in 2021 to be on the ice for the first day of rookie camp Wednesday at the MSG Training Center seemed a little awkward. It is his fifth rookie camp.

Othmann, though, doesn’t see rookie camp as something that is beneath him.

“I wanted to [attend], just because it helps with confidence,’’ he said. “It gets you ready for main camp. I mean, you get a week head start.

“I'm, yeah, an older guy, [but] for me, it doesn't matter,’’ Othmann, 22, said. “It's just hockey. I love playing hockey, love being at the rink. I mean, we ha

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